“Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.”

“It seemed to be a matter of general agreement that Hardy Cates was born for trouble, and sooner or later he would find it.”

“Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds.”

“If I never have anything from him except this one moment I am going to take it. Take it now, or drown in regret later.”

“But I hadn't known what love was. And I wondered how you could ever be sure, when you thought you loved someone, if you really did.”

“But when you started dating someone, you could never be sure what you were getting into. You had to give someone a chance to show you who he really was . . . and believe him when he did.”

“One could pick apart love, examine every filament of attraction, and still it would never be fully explained.It simply was.”